Glossary

ClusterShell

A light and unified command execution Python framework to help administer GNU/Linux or BSD clusters

Confiture

A Python framework to generate DNS, DHCP, Conman and network switch configurations using data in a RackTables database

BMGR

Boot Manager. A simple Python webserver that renders Jinja templates from data stored in a database. Data in applied per profile and nodes are associated with multiple profiles.

Fleet

Fleet ties together systemd and etcd into a distributed init system Github

PCOCC

pcocc (pronounced like “peacock”) stands for Private Cloud On a Compute Cluster. It allows users of an HPC cluster to host their own clusters of VMs on compute nodes, alongside regular jobs.

ETL

The Extract Transform and Load service. Described in Data Lake blueprint.